Afghanistan ministry of higher education

5million allocated for afghan students beyond country

Date: 27 Jul 2011

Five million usd had been allocated for students to  improve their education beyond the country, the ministry of higher education said yesterday. According  to the ministry of higher education seven students with high scores had been selected from each province to be included at the education scholarships. In an interview with Kabul times reporter. Spokesman of MOHE , Azim noorbakhsh said “documents of almost  1200 students have been collected and we hope to send more than 2000 students abroad by the end of this year. Noorbakhsh continued the government o f Afghanistan through the ministry of higher education tries its best to increase the number of scholarships we are in contact with different world countries  whereby more than 1200 scholarships additional to the previous number be sent to India, Pakistan, qazakhstan, Egypt, china and turkey” he said adding they hope  to introduce more than 2000 students to various countries of the world for receiving higher education .It should be mentioned that the government of Afghanistan has for the first time acquire the expenditures of the students and allocated $5 million in this regard .According to noorbakhsh seven students with high scores among those attended the entry exam of the last year from each province would be sent to turkey and India .Related to what disciplines had been chosen by the government of Afghanistan to send the students to other countries for higher education he said,” as you know we have 80 thousand students engaged in education in twenty-six of the government institutions” .Also about 45 thousand student in higher education institutions, it is noteworthy that the disciplines needed mostly by the government of Afghanistan are engineering, pharmacy, mines, and agriculture .Those had completed their programs work in government offices in Afghanistan now. As it should be evident, then thousand of our youth complete their education from the high schools each year. It is the duty of MOHE to train these youth to worked not only in different ministries of the government but in all the national and international institution working in Afghanistan .

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